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When you take the wheel of a car, you should drive it like it is stolen.
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How To Lose Friends And Influence People
When you take the wheel of a car, you should drive it like it is stolen. That will, however, require more subtlety than the casual GTA enthusiast imagines.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When you take the wheel of a car, you should drive it like it is stolen.
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The barriers to entry for software development keep dropping and more people are pouring in.
Whether that’s good remains to be seen and hinges on how we manage the ecosystem.
I unpack this tension in my latest essay, From Chunky to Smooth, available as article and podcast.
Whether that’s good remains to be seen and hinges on how we manage the ecosystem.
I unpack this tension in my latest essay, From Chunky to Smooth, available as article and podcast.
August 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The barriers to entry for software development keep dropping and more people are pouring in.
Whether that’s good remains to be seen and hinges on how we manage the ecosystem.
I unpack this tension in my latest essay, From Chunky to Smooth, available as article and podcast.
Whether that’s good remains to be seen and hinges on how we manage the ecosystem.
I unpack this tension in my latest essay, From Chunky to Smooth, available as article and podcast.
“The Hamfisted Hegemon, or... How To Irreversibly Squander A Century's Hard-Won Privileges For Fun And Profit” [👇 links to read and listen below]
August 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“The Hamfisted Hegemon, or... How To Irreversibly Squander A Century's Hard-Won Privileges For Fun And Profit” [👇 links to read and listen below]
"Frankly, the whole episode was a Data Engineer's worst nightmare, and our lack of progress fills me with dread for the next such cataclysm." [👇 links to read and listen in the comments ]
August 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"Frankly, the whole episode was a Data Engineer's worst nightmare, and our lack of progress fills me with dread for the next such cataclysm." [👇 links to read and listen in the comments ]
Why Security And Scalability Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin, or... How To Win Friends And Starve Invading Armies [👇 links in the comments ]
July 28, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Why Security And Scalability Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin, or... How To Win Friends And Starve Invading Armies [👇 links in the comments ]
"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."
July 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"A serious problem in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine."
"Imagine the possibilities if an adversary were actually putting some effort into this."
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From Signal Pete To Deepfake Rubio: The Struggle To Bootstrap And Protect Trust
[Find a podcast version here.] But Signal is secure, right? Right? Well, sort of, at least theoretically, at least probabilistically, at least to a degree and in certain contexts… We might re…
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July 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"Imagine the possibilities if an adversary were actually putting some effort into this."
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"I don't know about you but I think I might like a little bit of perimeter defense as a bulwark against the rising tide of slop."
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Zombie Perimeter Defense Is UNDEAD
[Find a podcast version here.] I remember a simpler time some twenty-five years ago when a three-tiered architecture of web server, application server, and database server defined my reality at a p…
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July 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"I don't know about you but I think I might like a little bit of perimeter defense as a bulwark against the rising tide of slop."
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"Buckle up buttercup because we’re all going to play a planetary scale game of Fuck Around Find Out together."
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share.transistor.fm/s/2e105cbf
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share.transistor.fm/s/2e105cbf
June 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Buckle up buttercup because we’re all going to play a planetary scale game of Fuck Around Find Out together."
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share.transistor.fm/s/2e105cbf
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